How can I shoot through a chain link fence without the fence being in the picture? I recently went to a zoo and all my pictures I can see the fence, which IMO makes the picture look bad.
You have to manual focus on the subject. Focus passed the fence. Manual focus to the point where the fence becomes invisble. It's possible, it's just takes practice.
In addition to manual focusing as described above, keeping your aperture as wide open as your shot allows for minimal depth of field will help. The further from the fence the subject is the better these techniques will work. Likewise the closer you can get to the fence the better - there will be fewer out-of-ficus bands obscuring your subject.
TMR 001 wrote: Alright, so manual focus pass the fence. What if I am not good at manual focusing? I can never seem to get a complete focus when I MF.
First manual focus, when the subject appears to mainly be in focus, then you can switch back over to AF. The camera should AF on your subject (that is, if your AF point is on the subject, and not on the fence)
cod wrote: In addition to manual focusing as described above, keeping your aperture as wide open as your shot allows for minimal depth of field will help. The further from the fence the subject is the better these techniques will work. Likewise the closer you can get to the fence the better - there will be fewer out-of-ficus bands obscuring your subject.
Thanks, although I am a little confused on...the closer I get to the fence, the better. Would this be because overall there is less fence in the frame of the picture?
TMR 001 wrote: Alright, so manual focus pass the fence. What if I am not good at manual focusing? I can never seem to get a complete focus when I MF.
First manual focus, when the subject appears to mainly be in focus, then you can switch back over to AF. The camera should AF on your subject (that is, if your AF point is on the subject, and not on the fence)
If you can get close enough to the fence you can still use AF. The secret is getting the lens as close to the fence as possible. I recently photographed my son playing baseball from behind the chain link fence. I pressed the lens hood right up to the fence, and it disappeared in the pics.
If you can get close enough to the fence so that the lens hood or the front edge of the filter/lens is just touching the chainlink, you can shoot right through the diamond opening.. at the very most, you may have a little vignette effect but if you compose properly, you can crop that out later..
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This image was made at the zoo while shooting through a fence. Get as close as possible and try to center the lens in a fence opening. A longer focal length also helps. I have not altered this image at all because of the fence. I used my normal processing techniques only.
Shadowfixer1 wrote: This image was made at the zoo while shooting through a fence. Get as close as possible and try to center the lens in a fence opening. A longer focal length also helps. I have not altered this image at all because of the fence. I used my normal processing techniques only.
What an ugly customer buzzards make. Especially this close. I think I would prefer looking at a fence...
Actually we have come to expect these types of images from you Randy.
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Shadowfixer1 wrote: This image was made at the zoo while shooting through a fence. Get as close as possible and try to center the lens in a fence opening. A longer focal length also helps. I have not altered this image at all because of the fence. I used my normal processing techniques only.
What an ugly customer buzzards make. Especially this close. I think I would prefer looking at a fence...
Actually we have come to expect these types of images from you Randy.
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